Cross Country Skiing - Tour de Ski
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Like the test female, also the Sprint classic male Oberstdorf gives the first career victory for one of the protagonists. This is Emil Iversen, before Ustiugov Sergey and Alexey Poltoranin.
Tuesday 5 January 2016 6 minutes reading time
For this not only Iversen & egrave; the first victory, but also the first podium in a class race of his career. Before today boasted two sixth places in Sprint free technique, but it was a boy full that even in the next stages potr & agrave; say its not discover today. The 24 year old builds its success in the last meters, when he jumps in speed & agrave; Double Ustiugov Sergey, who had first embarked on the final straight, triumphing in fact for posting.
The Russian must cos & Igrave; settle for the second consecutive time the square d & rsquo; honor in a Sprint race. & Egrave; this however, his best ever result in a race in classic technique, and like Iversen potr & agrave; undermine the positions also in the next distance in reciprocating. The podium & egrave; completed by Alexey Poltoranin, for the first time in the top three in the season and definitely one of the men to beat in the mass start tomorrow.
In the final quarter also come Martin Johnsrud Sundby, Petter Northug fifth, and Sebastian Eisenlauer sixth. The leader of the Tour de Ski conquest cos & Igrave; l & rsquo; another placement important (third, third, third, fourth and fourth his results in the last five Sprint played at the Tour de Ski) in format to him less congenial, and extend their lead in the overall standings that seems to have its own pi & ugrave; history. Sundby fact boasts 1 & rsquo; 34 of Northug and approximately two minutes on all other when there are only tests distance at the end of the race for excellence multistage cross-country skiing.
The three blue qualifiers are all eliminated in battery. Francesco De Fabiani try to break the bank being taken however, and missed all five rivals on the final straight, while Federico Pellegrino and Maicol Rastelli fail to place itself among the top two despite their was not a battery irresistible. Pellegrino comes to a fourteenth place that still allows to increase its margin in the standings of the World Cup of specialty & agrave ;. The Aosta Valley actually rose 300 points, while Sondre Fossli Turvoll, who retired after the first leg, remains at 172, third & egrave; Finn H & aring; January Krogh, now eliminated in the semifinals due to a fall, to 152.
MALE SPRINT TC OBERSTDORF & ndash; FINAL STANDINGS 1. IVERSEN Emil (NOR) 2. USTIUGOV Sergey (RUS) 3. POLTORANIN Alexey (KAZ) 4. Martin Johnsrud Sundby (NOR) 5. Petter Northug (NOR) 6. EISENLAUER Sebastian (GER)
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As mentioned, in the general classification of the Tour de Ski Martin Johnsrud Sundby further increase its margin increasing it to 1 & rsquo; 34 Petter Northug and just under two minutes Sergey Ustiugov, that thanks to the bonus bypasses Finn H & aring; January Krogh despite the Norwegian has got a best qualifying time. The fight for the podium is still wide open.
Click here for the general classification of the Tour de Ski Male after 4 stages of 8
Tomorrow the second and final stage of Oberstdorf: boys will compete in a 15 km classic technique with mass start, the format that replaces the original Skiathlon but impossible to organize because of the hot weather & rsquo; the absence of snow.
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